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- 1811: The Gilded Age
- ... entrepreneur and individual success. It was only natural that during this time of private interest the gap between rich and poor would be greatly widened and a state of disorder might arise. Capitalism was a new ideology and drastic labor problems and social disorder arose because Americans were simply adjusting to (and taking advantage of) the new system. Although the gap between rich and poor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was unquestionably large, the nation was also prospering through large economic gains. Although it may have seemed like a nation in which the rich were detached from the poor, the US was actually harvesting a new breed of self-accomplishing individuals. With the end of free labor, the US had sought a new ideology, and found it in Adam Smith’s market model. The market model was a beneficial system ...
- 1812: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis 1929 - 1994 A government biography indicates that Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was born in 1929 in Southampton, New York. Her father, John Vernou Bouvier III, was a successful Wall Street stockbroker. Her mother, Janet Lee Bouvier, was an equestrian. Jackie spent her childhood in New York City and Long Island with her parents. In 1940 her mother divorced and remarried to Hugh D. Auchincloss II in 1942. Jackie then moved with her mother to Newport, Rhode Island (22-23). The ... on-lookers who waited outside the church to see the newlyweds. Afterwards, 1,200 guests attended the wedding reception at Hammersmith Farm, which was near her stepfather’s estate. After their wedding, they traveled to New York to spend the night at the Waldorf Astoria before leaving for their two-week honeymoon in Acapulco, Mexico (24). After the Kennedy’s were married, Jackie had to adapt to a new life. ...
- 1813: Not So Hidden Agendas: Wilfred Owen and His Early Editors
- Not So Hidden Agendas: Wilfred Owen and His Early Editors Wilfred Owen is considered by many to be perhaps the best war poet in English, if not world, literature. Yet, at the time of his death on November 4, 1918, only five of his poems had been published. Thus, due to his premature death, it is clear that Wilfred Owen was not responsible ... with any critical detachment (Sassoon v). This, then, was Sassoon's main motivation: to get Owen's poems in print before he was forgotten. He also felt that the poems should be presented to the world by a veteran of the First World War. Thus, in Sassoon's mind, Sitwell could not introduce Wilfred Owen to the world. Edmund Blunden's 1931 edition was intended to add the critical and biographical apparatus that was absent from Sassoon' ...
- 1814: A New England Nun
- In “A New England Nun”, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman depicts the life of the classic New England spinster. The image of a spinster is of an old maid; a woman never married waiting for a man. The woman waiting to be married is restricted in her life. She does chores and ... is seen as disruptive. Man is seen as a threat to the serenity and security of a spinster’s life. Imagery put forth by this story, and by stereotypes of the day is of the new England spinster. Women who were not married yet, lived a life of chores and piousness. They learned their domestic chores and other things that would make them presentable as a wife. They did gardening ...
- 1815: The Catcher In The Rye- A Stud
- ... Salinger constructs a shocking reality, populated by phonies and bursting with falsities- a reality that is all too real. The Catcher in the Rye is the story of a young man's understanding of the world he lives in, and the things he encounters (Lomazoff 3). This work is similar to other famous and influential works of the same nature. For example, Maxwell Geismar sums up the novel as an eminently ... presents in brief compass all then petty horrors, the banalities, the final mediocrity of the American prep school (Geismar 195). Holden can not understand the purgatory of Pency prep, and futilely escapes from one dark world into darker world of New York City. The second half of the novel raises the intriguing questions and incorporates the deeper meaning of the work (Geismar). Holden sits on the cusp of adulthood, tethering dangerously close to ...
- 1816: Drugs: Hurt Players and Sports
- ... not be fined or suspended. If caught again his charge will be a four game suspension with loss of pay. Another famous athlete, Diego Maradona, was once considered the most skilled soccer player in the world. Now he is considered a loser. Maradona was banned from international soccer play for testing positive for cocaine. Shortly after that, he was arrested for cocaine possession (Longman 1). The fifteen month suspension ended in time for Maradona to play in the 1994 World Cup. He was then caught with five illegal drugs in his system. One doctor called it a “cocktail drug" (Sports Illustrated 10). He was then kicked out of the World Cup. “This latest behavior will no doubt further damage Maradona's already sagging reputation, "said U. S. soccer team member Claudia Reyna (Longman 1). Drugs hurt Maradona's health and reputation and prevented him ...
- 1817: The Mafia
- ... Mafia developed as an alternative to weak outsider governments and unfair laws that were viewed as tools of the ruling class” (Italian 3). When they first started, they replaced the Spanish landowners and used their new authority to help influence the power of their criminal group. Over a period of time the Sicilian Mafia began to participate in other activities besides land control. They engaged in things; such as, cattle theft ... who came to the United States during Mussolini’s regime. “This migration created a multinational network that would enable the Sicilian Mafia to become the international organized crime syndicate it is today” (Italian 6). After World War II, another factor in the development of the Mafia was the Sicilian Mafia’s resumption of ties with the newly formed La Cosa Nostra (lcn). “Beginning in 1956, a series of meeting between the ... American LCN helped to reestablish the ties to the formation of an international crime network that remains largely intact today” (Italian 6). This first series of meetings took place on October 17, 1956, in Binghamton, New York. The purpose of this meeting was to create a plan to give to the Sicilian Mafia leaders on international trading and drug trafficking. This meeting was attended by the American LCN members. The ...
- 1818: John Lennon: Biography
- ... John Winston Lennon, was born in Liverpool, England in 1940. I was the founding member of a group called the Beatles, which was the most popular music group in the history of rock and roll (World Book 197). The group included George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and myself. We originally formed in 1958, but it wasn't until 1960 that we decided to name ourselves the Beatles (World Book 191). My philosophy of the Beatles was, "when you said it, it was crawly things; when you read it, it was beat music (The New Book of Knowledge 108). I, along with Paul, wrote most of the Beatles' music. Songs that were written primarily by myself include "Help," "All You Need is Love," and "A Day in the Life."( ...
- 1819: Japan
- ... country made from four major islands. Though its area is small, each region has different tastes. The country has the population of 123.6 millions according to the 1990 census, or 2.5 % of the world total, and it is the seventh most populated nation according to The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Japan.(5, p.25). Japanese political and economical world power has been one of the success stories of the twentieth century. Though small in geographic area, its popularity is the seventh greatest; its inhabitants crowd themselves into an area the size of the state ... or California in the United States. Its natural resources are almost non- existent; however, today it ranks only second after the much larger United States as the most affluent and economically productive nation in the world. Japan was traditionally more self-sustained and semi-isolated in its islands, and it pursued its own historic path on the periphery of a great Chinese civilisation. The Japanese borrowed some cultural ideas from ...
- 1820: Euthanasia And Suicide
- ... a disease like Downs Syndrome see death as preferable to life (Leming, &Dickenson, p.212-214). Active and passive euthanasia are the two main types of euthanasia that have been debated for decades around the world. Many people oppose active euthanasia, such as the injection of a lethal drug, because it requires one person to deliberately kill another person. Fewer people oppose passive euthanasia-- the withdrawal of life-sustaining medical treatment ... technique that is not needed if the quality of the persons life would be unbearable. One problem is that of cultural lag, which results in static definitions of biological life and death being applied to new medical technological advances that change require new definitions to define when a person dies, such as the issue of brain death. The definition of death will determine if a person is pronounced dead before death has actually occurred. Doctor Paul A. ...
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